Ma and I hiked up to Heart Lake. Much of the hike was in a recent burn area. Thus, there was lots of fireweed plants - the flowers were gone, but the leaves were all bright red. Felt like fall back east. Hunting season started in two days so we saw LOTS of pack horses ("dont step in that horse sh...... oh never mind it will rub off eventually") and hunters going in.
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we made it to the lake!
Wonder if they named the beer after the wilderness area or vice versa?
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It was a beautiful sunny hike on the way up (on the way down we got hailed on)
A beautiful field of asters
Gunsight Lake
Sunrise on St. Mary Lake and Wizard Island
Another sunrise on St. Mary Lake
There were lots of glacier lilies on Logan Pass
Bighorn sheep were pretty friendly
View from the kayak on St. Mary Lake (before the wind picked up and the whitecaps started)
View of the river after a steep hike!
View of the confluence of the south fork salmon with the main salmon
A big rose at an old ranch
We found ripe cherries at an old abandoned orchard (also saw some nectarines, but they werent ripe)
Field of wildflowers on a hike up the south fork Teton
Columbine flowers
This is Upper Mesa Falls near Island Park - the wildflowers along the road were amazing this year
